Alburnus tarichi

• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Common Names

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Description

Family Cyprinidae

Distribution: North America (northern Canada to southern Mexico), Africa, and Eurasia . Pharynx with 1-3 rows of teeth, each row with a maximum of 8 teeth. Usually thin lips , plicae or papillae absent; mouth sometimes suckerlike (Garra and Labeo). With or without barbels . Premaxilla usually borders the upper jaw making the maxilla entirely or almost entirely excluded from the gape. Usually protrusible upper jaw. Dorsal fin with spinelike rays in some. Primitive number of chromosomes 2n=50, some with 48; polyploidy exists. Maximum length at least 2.5 m to probably 3 m in Catlocarpio siamensis; many species less than 5 cm. Mainly non-guarders, but in some species males build nests and/or protect the eggs .The family Cyprinidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Cypriniformes. It contains 210 genera and 2010 species. It may be found in Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Primary freshwater. Many members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is subcarangiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. Members of this family have been dated back to the Eocene epoch of the Tertiary period. This family may be found from 70° n to 34° s and 150° w to 170° e. Etymology of this family name : Greek, kyprinos = goldfish .

Habitat

Biome: Fresh water . Benthopelagic.

Biology

Reproduction

Enters rivers for spawning in spring (Ref. 1441).

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Alburnus tarichi /i> (Güldenstädt, 1814)
2. Alburnus timarensis Kuru, 1980
3. Chalcalburnus tarichi (Güldenstädt, 1814)
4. Cyprinus tarichi Güldenstädt, 1814
5. Leuciscus vanensis Günther, 1868

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Alburnus

There are approximately 117 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. acutus · A. akili (Gokce Baligi) · A. albidus (Italian Bleak) · A. albidus alborella · A. albor · A. alborella · A. alborella lateristriga · A. alburnellus · A. alburnus (North Caucasian Bleak) · A. alburnus alborella · A. alburnus alburnus · A. alburnus hohenackeri (North Caucasian Bleak) · A. alburnus hohenackerkumbaschensis · A. alburnus macedonicus · A. alburnus strumicae · A. alburnus thessalicus · A. alburnus x · A. amabilis · A. arborella · A. alburnus · A. atropatenae · A. alburnus · A. avola · A. baliki · A. belvica · A. bipunctatus · A. bipunctatus eichwaldi · A. bipunctatus ohridanus · A. bipunctatus prespensis · Acanthalburnus microlepis · A. breviceps · A. caeruleus · A. capito · A. caudimacula · A. chalcoides · A. chalcoides carinatus · A. chalcoides danubicus · A. chalcoides derjugini · A. chalcoides istanbulensis · A. chalcoides mentoides · A. chalcoides nicaeensis · A. chalcoides sapancae · A. charusini · A. charusini hohenackeri · A. dilectus · A. dnjestrensis · A. dolabratus · A. doriae · A. eichwaldii · A. escherichi · A. escherichii · A. filippi · A. filippii (Kura Bleak) · A. formosus · A. alburnus · A. alburnus · A. harusini · A. hebes · A. heckeli · A. hohenackeri (North Caucasian Bleak) · A. iblis · A. orontis · A. lepidulus · Notropis ludibundus · A. lucidus · A. lucidus angustior · A. lucidus colobocephala · A. lucidus elata · A. lucidus elongata · A. lucidus heck · A. lucidus ilmenensis · A. lucidus lacustris · A. lucidus latior · A. lucidus macropterus · A. lucidus oxycephala · A. macedonicus · Alburnoides bipunctatus · A. megacephalus · Notropis amabilis · A. mento · A. mirandella · A. mossulensis · A. mossulensis delineatus · A. nasreddini · A. nitidus · A. nordmannii · A. obtusus · A. oleiferus · Notropis atherinoides · A. orontis · A. orontis sauvage · A. pallidus · A. pleuriticus · A. punctatus · A. punctulatus · A. qalilus · A. rosenhaueri · A. rubellus · A. rubrifrons · A. schejtan

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Further Reading

• Berg, L.S. (1964). Freshwater fishes of the U.S.S.R. and adjacent countries. volume 2, 4th edition. Israel Program for Scientific Translations Ltd, Jerusalem. (Russian version published 1949).
• Bogutskaya, N.G. (1997). Contribution to the knowledge of leuciscine fishes of Asia Minor. Part 2. An annotated check-list of leuciscine fishes (Leuciscinae, Cyprinidae) of Turkey with descriptions of a new species and two new subspecies. Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 94:161-186.
• Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. ISBN: 0-940228-47-5.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Sari, M. 2008. Threatened fishes of the world: Chalcalburnus tarichi (Pallas 1811) (Cyprinidae) living in the highly alkaline Lake Van, Turkey Journal Environmental Biology of Fishes, Publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 0378-1909 (Print) 1573-5133 (Online) Issue Volume 81, Number 1 / January, 2008

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• FishBase 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 04, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Chalcalburnus tarichi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 14 January 2007.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3855171
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-134343
• Fishbase Species ID: 9635
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 688383
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 101514

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